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If the man who turnips cries, Cry not when his father dies, 'Tis proof that he had rather Have a turnip than his father.
Samuel Johnson
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Samuel Johnson
Age: 75 †
Born: 1709
Born: September 18
Died: 1784
Died: December 13
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A student may easily exhaust his life in comparing divines and moralists without any practical regard to morals and religion he may be learning not to live but to reason... while the chief use of his volumes is unthought of, his mind is unaffected, and his life is unreformed.
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Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom it is to be sure, good for nothing but put all these atoms together, and you have St. Paul's Church. So it is with human felicity, which is made up of many ingredients, each of which may be shown to be very insignificant.
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Those who have no power to judge of past times but by their own, should always doubt their conclusions
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It is however, reasonable, to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance towards it, though we know it never can be reached.
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I am always for getting a boy forward in his learning, for that is sure good. I would let him at first read any English book which happens to engage his attention because you have done a great deal when you have brought him to have entertainment from a book. He'll get better books afterwards.
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To purchase Heaven has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? No--all that's worth a wish--a thought, Fair virtue gives unbribed, unbought. Cease then on trash thy hopes to bind, Let nobler views engage thy mind.
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The drama's laws the drama's patrons give. For we that live to please must please to live.
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No man hates him at whom he can laugh.
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
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People may be taken in once, who imagine that an author is greater in private life than other men.
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We never do anything consciously for the last time without sadness of heart.
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